Toby Keith Slammed for “Racist” Gesture
Tags: asians, nobel peace prize, pulling eyes, racist, raps, toby keith, Will Smith, yellow
American Asian groups are getting their noodles in a knot after Toby Keith did an impromptu eye-pulling gesture at a Nobel Peace Prize party recently. Says Popeater,
An Asian American group says Toby Keith “embarrassed himself and his country” this week at a Nobel Peace Prize party in Norway when he stretched his eyes back while Will Smith rapped the word “yellow.”
Besides embarrassing all sorts of people, a rep for the Asian American Justice Center tells TMZ that Keith “denigrated the Noble (sic) Peace Prize and offended Asians and Asian Americans by using a crude, racist hand gesture.”
Piling on is the Media Action Network for Asians, who believes Keith “is telling his Asian fans ‘you don’t matter, you’re not on my radar.’”
The incident occured while Smith was rocking a rendition of ‘Rapper’s Delight,’ and Keith began pantomiming along with the lyrics. His rep told TMZ on Tuesday that “No one at the concert thought Toby was out of line.”
When did Asians turn into such wussies? They come from a hardcore tradition of kamikazes, ninjas, hara-kiri, samurai, caning, hell, even their women would bind their baby girls’ feet! Now you’re all offended because somebody pulled their eye? Cry me the fucking Yangtze.
Forward to the :23 mark for the shocking moment:
9 Comments, Comment or Ping
ApexGDS
They’re all upset over him making a gesture in the vicinity of his eye (technically, we can’t see from the video what exactly he was doing), but yet no one is offended at Will Smith singing the term “yellow”???
DOUBLE STANDARD!
Dec 16th, 2009
jon
Awwwww…me so Sowwwwwryyyyyyy
Dec 16th, 2009
garth
i know toby personaly when i showed him this he said fuck those gook bastards. immediately he began to write a pearl harbor tribute song. tomorrow we are flying out to nevada to dennis cathouse and screwing asian ladies…. maybe we will drink some sake on the flight…
Dec 16th, 2009
El Terrible
Will Smith didn’t write “Rapper’s Delight”, and the song itself about INCLUSIVENESS.
lyrics in question:
“see i am wonder mike and i like to say hello
to the black, to the white, the red, and the brown, the purple and YELLOW”
Dec 16th, 2009
T
I’m Asian btw and I do hate it when people do that eye thing. It’s stupid and racist. I mean hell, I love racist jokes and stuff, especially when they’re mean – as long as we all acknowledge that they ARE mean. I love shows like Family Guy and any good stand up comic with racist material, and part of the joke is that it’s so horrible that they said that. The thing with this gesture and people’s general approval for it is just offensive because it’s A. Not funny, and B. No one ever admits that it’s wrong to do it. Like when Miley Cyrus did it, everyone came out to say she did nothing wrong and that we shouldn’t complain. Most Asians don’t complain because we generally never stand up for ourselves. Anyway, I know this blog is funny and all, but it’s inexcusable that the guy who did it can’t even apologize for it, I mean, he’s not a comedian, right? (I don’t actually even know who he is).
Dec 17th, 2009
pee into the future
T
I’m Asian btw and I do hate it when people do that eye thing. It’s stupid and racist. I mean hell, I love racist jokes and stuff, especially when they’re mean – as long as we all acknowledge that they ARE mean. I love shows like Family Guy and any good stand up comic with racist material, and part of the joke is that it’s so horrible that they said that. The thing with this gesture and people’s general approval for it is just offensive because it’s A. Not funny, and B. No one ever admits that it’s wrong to do it. Like when Miley Cyrus did it, everyone came out to say she did nothing wrong and that we shouldn’t complain. Most Asians don’t complain because we generally never stand up for ourselves. Anyway, I know this blog is funny and all, but it’s inexcusable that the guy who did it can’t even apologize for it, I mean, he’s not a comedian, right? (I don’t actually even know who he is).
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dont you have some round eye to chase after or something?
Dec 17th, 2009
Aryan Barbarian
Get a f-in life. This is all people have to do. That race card is getting old. Do us a favor and kill yourself if this bothers you.
Dec 17th, 2009
daddy fat sacks
Hory cow it’s godzirra
Dec 17th, 2009
Tilman Hooks
There is something Very Wrong when a person in particular a White Person insn’t allowed to have a Preference (like everyone else) does as to whom he Prefers to have as Friends or to associate with. Now he doesn’t want to be around those noisey,thieving, rapping, lazy, worthless blacks So YOu Call Him a Racist? If that’s the case being a racist should be a badge of honor.
Dec 17th, 2009
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